Secure & Professional

Dupuch & Turnquest & Co. offers unparalleled legal representation across a comprehensive range of practice areas that are critical to the success of our clients. We practice at the very top of the legal profession and offer a cutting-edge blend of capabilities that enables us to handle your matters in a professional and personal manner with Local Knowledge and International Experience.

About the Firm

Dupuch & Turnquest & Co. is one of the oldest and most respected Law Firms in The Bahamas. We are a highly successful practice with major strengths in corporate, commercial, property and private client services. We enjoy an International reputation earned over more than Fifty years of commercial practice. One of our founding Partners, Sir Orville A. Turnquest, KCMG, Q.C. has now rejoined the Firm as Consultant Counsel after previously serving as Deputy Prime Minister of The Bahamas and Governor General of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.

While we initially made our reputation as leading Litigation Counsel, we have expanded over the past Twenty years and enjoy a considerable commercial practice also offering our Clients complete Probate, Conveyancing and Corporate Services with a clear vision of the future. Our Firm maintains offices in both Freeport and Nassau and its two Senior Partners, Terence R. H. Gape, Esq. and Mrs. Caryl A.E. Lashley, have been in practice for over Thirty years.

The Firm’s Freeport office has been in existence since 1969 and now has a Staff of Three counsel and Twelve support staff to meet your individual legal needs.

Managing Partner

Mr. Gape was called to the Bahamas Bar in November 1972 when he joined the Firm of Dupuch & Turnquest of which he is now Senior Partner and head of its Freeport Chambers.

Mr. Gape has distinguished himself as a leading Counsel in commercial matters representing such Firms as: The Southern Company, The Dart Corporation, Group Vivendi, the Ginn Company, Associated Grocers Inc. and DeVry University in their major Investments in Grand Bahama